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Take stuff they have never read...
... you know.... The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights...
Ignoring Facts to make it worse
So, 80% of the cutters are doing so as it has gotten too expensive - response is to raise rates to keep Wall Street happy with Profits and Growth.
And that makes more people join the cutters who can't afford it...
And the rates are raised again to cover those losses...
This business plan won't work for long - but the charts will certainly have a pretty curve on them...Hyperbolic maybe?
And in related news...
... the innocence project is in need of about 2500 new lawyers to handle the influx of cases.
I agree - EVERY case these guys have EVER testified in is now suspect. Any case decided or swayed by their testimony should be overturned.
So we've uncovered massive fraud in Lab Testing and now lying by the very people sworn to uphold the law.
I'm putting away my TD popcorn and getting out the TD Scotch.
But it was just easier..
... to threaten leakers with espionage charges than to fix leaks...
Tom may be correct...
... if by "move them in the right direction" he meant "towards the exit"
Re: Re: Re:
now *that* would be funny - maybe hire one of our favorite "reputation management" trolls to file LOTS of DMCA and "libel orders" for them...take downs for CNN and BBC for reporting on them...take downs for CIA and NSA for gathering data on them...
Re:
And just like the "Right to be Forgotten", this will immediately scope-creep up as "we meant GLOBALLY".
It will be a sad day indeed when the only site left is ICanHazCheezburger. Then again, that will offend someone.
OK fine. Back to World War IV. I'm sure I have a modem somewhere...
Re:
You are correct. Now all they have to do is convince the judge that "reblogging" is the equivalent of "distribution" and they get 500 convictions!
This may get very scary very quickly.
On-Demand vs On-Supply
This is one part the cable companies just don't get. Viewers are no longer interested in being tied to THEIR schedule.
We want to watch WHAT and WHEN "OUR" schedule permits.
Broadcast with a fixed schedule just doesn't match lifestyles anymore.
"Prime Time Viewing" is dead. bury it already.
This is much better...
instead of a "Golden Key" to the backdoor, we're just giving out free keys to the front door....
We can truthfully guarantee...
... that is is NOT 100% of the population.
It is strictly limited to those people who use electronic-based forms of communication.
From the Government to the Governed:
BOHICA
The point of view...
From the "old guard" -
In the "Good Old Days" (tm) we controlled the media, and therefore controlled the information the proletariat was allowed to know.
This damn internet let's them know the TRUTH!!! We can't allow that.
This looks like a good excuse to stamp it out.
[ good luck with that!!! ]
An old adage comes to mind...
... Something about a genie and a bottle...
Other Charges?
If they have been paying attention to how some companies bill, the actual invoice will be $7 for "sending" it to them; $12 for them "reading" it; $32 for them "responding" to it; a $15 service fee; a $9 "cost recovery fee"...
Can't stop the march of progress...
.. no matter how hard they try. They refuse to learn from history, and can't see the future wall they are about to run into.
In the 1930's and 1940's families sat around the radio - then along came TV and families moved from radio to TV. Radio's heyday was over.
Cable came along to give a lot more choice than the 3 broadcast channels. And broadcast moved out of relevance.
Facts - Water is a necessity; Food is a necessity; Their particular flavor of "Entertainment" is NOT.
Families no longer sit at home during the "prime time viewing hours". They are out DOING THINGS. Or enjoying other forms of entertainment and relaxation.
I cut the cable; I dropped the dish; I use only streaming services. And I'm 64.
This is NOT a millennials issue - it is a change in the very CULTURE of life.
And if they can't learn that and figure a way to be a part of the new culture of entertainment and relaxation - then they can "go quietly into that good night" of irrelevance.
Why do the Courts
... still think that any federal agency will listen to them? Or obey a "Court Order"?
If the last few years have taught us anything, it is that all agencies hold themselves "above the law".
Court orders FBI; FBI ignores order - Court Orders DoJ - DoJ laughs.
Re:
The standard 2 places: High Executive Salaries for the collection services; and LOTS of campaign contributions.
Still one step ahead...
.. so they can now arrest me for what I'm reading...
Thank God they can't yet arrest me for what I'm *thinking*
If they are robo-calling for donations...
.. I'm happy to send them the checks I get from all the Nigerian Princes...